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They're still in the stage of trying to get uptake on the sub. Ads come later. When they've got sufficient uptake, they'll start to add different sub levels.

If other subscription services are anything to go by, I expect that business subscriptions will be free of ads. Personal subs will initially be free of ads, but ads will slowly be added, starting with the cheapest subscription and working their way up.

I rip CDs as they enter my house, so I don't have to worry about decay.

If you decide to do mods, you can make your life much, much easier by using a launcher. I use Prism, but I haven't looked for anything new in the last few years so it's possible there are better options now.

Also, find a world backup solution and use it.

I think it's supposed to be an anti-abuse thing for commonly abused drugs.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think killing people is an improvement.

Coated rebar could be good, but the coating can be damaged anywhere from manufacture to installation.

Pretty much all the melatonin in physical stores is hilariously overdosed, yes. If you're in the U.S., you'll have to look for products from specialty supplement brands. I take a tiny 300mcg capsule.

I absolutely believe that AI can be used by bad people in harmful ways. I don't think that's going to take the form of mass murder. I don't think knowledge is the missing component there.

AI changes lots of things, and many for the worse. The idea that it's going to enable terrorists to perform biological warfare isn't credible.

You can, right now, find out how to synthesize VX or sarin, or how to weaponize anthrax. You can and have been able to acquire this knowledge without the use of AI. Knowledge is not the obstacle to proliferation of biological and chemical weapons. It's hard to set up the infrastructure. See Aum Shinrikyo.

This sounds like you may be taking a very high dose. What dose do you take?

That was likely what I was thinking of - I have vague memories of seeing an ad for this in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science in the 2000s.

A 'smart pen' that records the student's writing in some way, maybe? My first thought was a tablet that boots straight into a writing software but students should not be subjected to any amount of latency in their writing.

Practically, I think if you want the AI system to have a live view of what the student's doing you're going to have to replace one of either the tablet or the writing instrument. A wearable camera could work as well but there are issues with that.

Awesome, I was a bit concerned.

That's from the June 16 post, does that still apply?

edit: Kagi Translate still works for paying customers. I was completely unaware they'd been giving it away for free.

Kagi News and Kagi Translate have both been successes that took us by surprise. ... But these unexpected successes led to a massive spike in our costs for applications offered for free.

As a result, we have temporarily removed translations and left access to the articles’ original languages as well as English. Kagi Translate will be back in the coming days as a subscription-based service.

Free? I'm a paying customer. Maybe you can't provide unlimited translate access, but I expect some amount of translation access as part of my Kagi subscription.

If you asked a politician point blank, I doubt they'd openly say that they want to take parenting decisions away from parents.

This is already possible. There's not enough people doing it, so instead we get age verification schemes.

The benefit of an age attestation scheme is that it makes it easy for parents, while also diffusing future attempts to use children as an excuse for control.

The benchmarks I've seen - only a few, and only because my partner was watching them - show it basically neck and neck with a PS5. Not a PS5 Pro, to be clear, and a PS5 slim is only $650, but the Steam Machine isn't underpowered in console gaming terms.

It doesn't even need 'age verification'. Ostensibly, the goal is to prevent children from accessing content their parents don't want them to see. That means all that's needed is a standard way for parents to make sure that websites know their children are children. They don't need identity, they don't need actual age, we don't even need a complicated cryptographic solution.

California had the right idea - establish a standard way for a client to identify that the user isn't an adult (or you could do it the other way around, but that's less permissive), mandate that websites obey the flag, mandate that OSes include the feature and that browsers use it. In the end, anyone who owns a device can set their age group flag however they want it - it would be up to parents to make sure their children only use devices set the way they want. The parents could set their 8 year old's age group to whatever age group they want, and rest assured that websites would respect it.

With current hardware prices, I'm not sure it'll be 'old' in gaming terms in a few years. I'm expecting the PS6 to be only a moderate upgrade over the PS5, not arrive for another year at least, and probabky take 5 years to overtake the PS5.

I think calling the hardware generations out of date when it performs on par with a PS5 on new games is a bit inaccurate.

I would, admittedly, be interested in an anticheat that reboots the machine for deck into a secure mode.

I don't think there's much chance Sony or Nintendo would have blocked the publishing of a Java version of Minecraft, if that had been on offer in place of Bedrock.

The rules are always flexible for huge games, especially when they'd otherwise be an exclusive for a competitor.

It's scalable, personalizable social engineering. I think that makes it a lot more dangerous.

If this is the video I'm thinking of, both versions are up. I think the toned down version is meant to be more palatable to certain people.

Did I say that? No, I responded to the claim that people were not allocated resources by society.

Could it have been dehydration?

Facebook marketplace killed craigslist, I guess?

Sure, it's part of Facebook but it's not the same as the core product.

What is the stock market if not a way for society to allocate resources?

I think it's less expense-driven and more user-driven. Most forums I frequented in the 2000s were funded by donations. The userbase, though, disappeared. The network effects of facebook and reddit and such are hard to overcome, and worse when you consider how google search prefers to surface either social media sites or blogspam/content theft sites.